After the death of her mother, Mrs Iloba said: “Stay home. When it hits home, you realise how dangerous the situation is.

“You realise, yes, the NHS are heroes but let’s not put their lives at risk as well.

“Let’s not be selfish in our expectations of the NHS by going out, irrespective of what Mr Johnson has said, let’s not go out and think we’re immune to anything - we’re not.

“By going out you’re putting doctors’ and nurses’ lives at risk and they have families, families who care for them, families who love them and families who want them to survive this pandemic.

“You just need to stay home.”

Ms Olaolorun started showing symptoms of Covid-19 in late March and was taken to hospital, before being put onto a ventilator on April 6.

“I called her and she was crying,” Mrs Iloba said.

“I realised something was wrong and got my sister who is a doctor to call the hospital, they explained she would be put on a ventilator and sedated.

“She must have been told already but she was trying not to tell us so that we wouldn’t be worried.

“We called her back in a four-way call on WhatsApp - She said ‘I’ll see you guys later they’re just wheeling me off’ we said ‘alright I’ll see you soon’ and that was the last thing we said to her.”

Ms Olaolorun started showing symptoms of Covid-19 in late March and was put on a ventilator on April 6, before being moved from Ealing Hospital to Charing Cross Hospital, where she died ten days later.

Her children have made a GoFundMe page and foundation in their mother’s name to help young people in Nigeria to access higher education.

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